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Marriages.
The marriages registered in Battersea during 1922 numbered
1,404. The marriage.rate (i.e., the number of persons married per
1,000 of the population) was 16.6. There were 1,482 marriages and
a marriage.rate of 17.5 in 1921, 1,644 marriages and a rate of 19.8
in 1920, and 1,677 marriages and a marriage.rate of 20.2 in 1919.
Births.
The number of births registered in the borough during 1922 was
3,577 (1,837 males, 1,740 females), an excess of 97 males. Of this
number 225 were transferred out, the permanent residence of the
parents being outside the Borough, and 313 births occurring elsewhere
were transferred here, giving on balance a total of 3,665 births relating
to Battersea residents, and a corrected birth.rate of 21.7 per
1,000 of the population.

The following table shows comparative average birth.rates
for quinquennial periods from 1877-81 to 1917-1921, and birthrates
for individual years from 1917 for England and Wales, London
and Battersea:—